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<blockquote data-quote="Lord Zardoz" data-source="post: 3983781" data-attributes="member: 704">It actually is not such a stupid thing to include a community standards type clause, though it is stupid to arbitrarily exclude that content from D&amp;D.Remember the &quot;Nintendo Seal of Quality&quot;?&nbsp; It served two purposes.&nbsp; The first was to exclude a raft of subpar games from being put onto the original NES machine.&nbsp; The second is that it is a layer of protection for Nintendo in the event of a lawsuit.There are two games that basically had a hand in bringing down the original Atari.&nbsp; The first was ET, which was slammed together in 8 weeks to make a deadline, and just sucked.&nbsp; The unsold cartriges were put into a landfill.&nbsp; The other game is called Custer's Revenge.&nbsp; It is much lesser known, and I will leave it to you to read the entry on Wikipedia.&nbsp; The subject matter in that game is such a blatant violation of the Grandma rules on this board that I am not sure I can even properly describe it here.My point is this, however.&nbsp; The D&amp;D game is owned by Wizards, which in turn is owned by Hasbro.&nbsp; The last thing Hasbro wants is to be hit with a lawsuit by some enraged parent that finds out their precious little snowflake is reading pornographic material in a game that is marketed towards an audience of 12 and up.&nbsp; Also, forgetting the sex angle, the standards also keep other things away from the game, such as a D&amp;D adventure that would promote racism by doing something along the lines of making a recognizable ethnic minority the monster to be killed for fun and sport.I also think the last thing that D&amp;D needs to do right now is find a way to put itself back into the cross hairs of conservative parents groups.&nbsp; Dealing with Patricia Pulling and the &quot;D&amp;D is Satan worship&quot; image was bad enough for the game.&nbsp; It had died down by the time I got into the game, but the echos were still there.&nbsp; I would rather not have my hobby get pulled back into that with a &quot;D&amp;D is Satan worship and pornography&quot;.&nbsp; BoEM was a fringe product and an expansion, but zealots wont make that distinction any more than they did for the Grand Theft Auto Hot Coffee scandal when the content was not the sort of thing you would find by accident.END COMMUNICATION</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lord Zardoz, post: 3983781, member: 704"] It actually is not such a stupid thing to include a community standards type clause, though it is stupid to arbitrarily exclude that content from D&D. Remember the "Nintendo Seal of Quality"? It served two purposes. The first was to exclude a raft of subpar games from being put onto the original NES machine. The second is that it is a layer of protection for Nintendo in the event of a lawsuit. There are two games that basically had a hand in bringing down the original Atari. The first was ET, which was slammed together in 8 weeks to make a deadline, and just sucked. The unsold cartriges were put into a landfill. The other game is called Custer's Revenge. It is much lesser known, and I will leave it to you to read the entry on Wikipedia. The subject matter in that game is such a blatant violation of the Grandma rules on this board that I am not sure I can even properly describe it here. My point is this, however. The D&D game is owned by Wizards, which in turn is owned by Hasbro. The last thing Hasbro wants is to be hit with a lawsuit by some enraged parent that finds out their precious little snowflake is reading pornographic material in a game that is marketed towards an audience of 12 and up. Also, forgetting the sex angle, the standards also keep other things away from the game, such as a D&D adventure that would promote racism by doing something along the lines of making a recognizable ethnic minority the monster to be killed for fun and sport. I also think the last thing that D&D needs to do right now is find a way to put itself back into the cross hairs of conservative parents groups. Dealing with Patricia Pulling and the "D&D is Satan worship" image was bad enough for the game. It had died down by the time I got into the game, but the echos were still there. I would rather not have my hobby get pulled back into that with a "D&D is Satan worship and pornography". BoEM was a fringe product and an expansion, but zealots wont make that distinction any more than they did for the Grand Theft Auto Hot Coffee scandal when the content was not the sort of thing you would find by accident. END COMMUNICATION [/QUOTE]

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